Phil Knight Quotes
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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No one person is an island.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.
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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.
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Hi mores, haec duri inmota Catonissecta fuit, servare modum finemque tenerenaturamque sequi patriaeque inpendere vitamnec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.
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Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.
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But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.
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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
